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I would like to know if any 2000+ players (or close) give the The Trompowsky a run around the block under tournament conditions. If so, and you have had a reasonable game with it, I'd appreciate an email with that game. Or post it here if you prefer. Perhaps you had a great position and failed to convert (tell me about it!!, sheez).

I'll just post a few games I've had against the Trompovsky, all were interesting for one reason or another.

In this one apparently I could have held the balance around move 34 or 35, but overlooked a nice trick by David winning a piece.

This was a really crazy game, I got this dubious position but eventually emerged somehow into an ending a pawn up. Unfortunately I was quite short of time (even with the 30s increment) and Chris well and truly exploited this.

This was an interesting game for me because I thought in the opening I was fine-Bishop outside the pawn chain, solid pawn structure...but White in fact has an edge-Black's light squared bishop is in fact not very active and White has a pleasant space advantage. 7...b6 was correct I believe, after
Qb6 White ends up getting a real bind on the Qside after forcing Black to swap on b3 with 10.c5.

Apparently Black is objectively lost after 13.Qe3 but it takes rather a lot of analysis to demonstrate it. There is some suggestion Shirov may have resigned in disgust or because he was way behind on the clock as well as having a dud position.

Being a big mouth and putting my foot in it, I can only gather that all the Tromp games currently under way are by amateurs because they have all(?) responded to 2. Bg5 by 2....h6 and 3...g5, that I think may trangress Lasker's strategy? Which is not what the more classy players in this thread have done.

Before you shriek about Black's 8...f6, the comp has black + as a result of it, and question mark's white's sacrifice. After all, sacrificing is one thing - proving it is quite another. I don't know if the sac was proven, but the counter-play was hellish!